Sylvia meets Andrew in a way that doesn’t really excite her – which means there is no love at first sight for her. But that does not rule out the possibility of a love story given Andrew’s drop-dead gorgeous looks.

Before she realizes, Sylvia is head over heels in love with Andrew.

But, why is Andrew hiding from the CIA? Is it something to be suspicious about or is it merely a coincidence?

And who is responsible for the recent terror activities in the neighborhood? Surely, it can’t be Andrew! Or could he?

And just as Sylvia starts to believe that her dreams are coming closer to reality, a long harboured secret between Andrew and CIA Chief, Edd Dawson comes out in the open; a secret that changes Sylvia’s life forever.

Targeted Age Group: 18

Book Price: 0.99

How is Writing In Your Genre Different from Others?
Story and flow of the characters makes it different.

What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Keep writing and bring something new to the table.

Author Bio:
Nikita Jhanglani – Owner of WeavingThoughts.com which is a content writing and web design firm. I am also an audiophile and computer enthusiast.

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
Chaos around the world and lack of love.

A short, light, satire depicting the ‘tantric’ efforts of a youngish, not-long married, slacker of a hack author to sexually reconcile with his Schoolteacher wife, who has recently taken his conjugal privileges back on account of him compulsively calling her “Bitch” in the sack.

Targeted Age Group:
21+

How is Writing In Your Genre Different from Others?
Writings on Tantra usually tend to be profound, but I’ve gone with profane so as to fulfill my aim.

What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Apply the seat of the trousers to the seat of the chair, and write.

Author Bio:
I’m 34, a freelance Logician by day and a Tantric Magician by night. ‘Her Name Is Callie’ is the first of my Tantra-themed short stories to be published. It contains absolutely positively no facts, truths or secrets pertaining to the true nature of Tantra, of course. The actions, incantations and invocations depicted in it must NOT be attempted for real, of course, because my fiction is entirely fictional, of course..

Of course. Goes without Saying. No two ways about it. Would I lie to you?

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I wasn’t inspired to write. I was ordered to write by my guru, who is angry beyond repair at the lame, cutesy, New Age image that Tantra has in the west.

Vanessa is hiding something. No matter what, she can’t seem to escape her mistake. Shame keeps her from trusting the Lord, her family, even the man who loves her. Will she be able to let go and allow herself forgiveness? Or will she fall prey to the man who wants her dead? She needs help, but will she choose to take it?

Targeted Age Group:
13-99

How is Writing In Your Genre Different from Others?
Though the book is primarily romance, it has some incredibly funny parts as well as scenes that will make you cry. There are elements of suspense as well. These are three of my favorite elements in fiction and it’s been wonderful to combine them.

What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Read books on craft. You can always get better as a writer. Don’t be afraid of critique and bad reviews. Learn from them. Keep what you can use and throw out the rest. Write! Do NaNoWriMo (50,000 word book in 30 days in the month of November. It’s great discipline!) Read books in the genre you write and in other genres. Analyze other books chapter by chapter and think about how the author did what he or she did.

Author Bio:
Christina Li, BA, MA, is a wife and mother of five. Besides writing, she enjoys reading, art, music, and a great cup of coffee. She and her family live in the northwest suburbs of Chicago where they serve as part of the ministerial staff of the Life Church of Des Plaines. She has always loved romance. Of course it has to have a happy ending!

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
Vanessa deals with the issue of shame and accepting the forgiveness of God. I’ve struggled with this and wanted to show how you can break free and receive real, healthy love from the Lord and others.

It’s summer on the Isle of Man and Andrew is looking for hot girls and good times. So when he meets the dreamy and seductive Margaid, he thinks he’s hit the jackpot. There are only a couple of minor problems: Margaid lives in a cave under the sea, is invisible, and thinks that only Andrew’s blood can save her from turning into a water horse! But hey, whoever said love was perfect!?

Targeted Age Group:
17 on up

How is Writing In Your Genre Different from Others?
I love history, my favorite time periods and people are the Dark Age and Ancient Celts. It’s a time period few people have accurate knowledge of, so I have to make a world previously unreal to the reader, real to them, just like fantasy and sci-fi authors do. In the tradition of Marion Zimmer Bradley, I use fantasy to bring the readers into the belief system of the characters. I want to make the druid teachings of the times come alive to the readers in my historical books and for the ones set in modern times, I want to bring alive the mythology of the Celtic culture. So in my books, people can shape shift, there are selkies, vampiric fey, dead ancestors who cross over to help you out their descendants, gods who fall in love with humans, and from time to time, dragons visit from their alternate dimension.

What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Never stop writing, put the your inner-editor aside and finish the rough draft. Find your unique author voice and go with it, always. Never give up, following a dream is always hard work, but it’s the only way to truly live.

Author Bio:
Cornelia Amiri who also writes also Maeve Alpin is the author of 18 Celtic/Paranormal and Steampunk Romances. She lives in Houston , TX with her son, granddaughter, and her cat, Severus.

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I love Celtic myth and legend, and when I read about the lhiannan shee, vampire spirits from the Isle of Man, who dwell in sea caves where they keep a red cauldron filled with the blood of their human lovers, I thought it was hilarious. I love vampire stories with a Celtic twist and funny paranormal romances so I wrote A Fine Cauldron of Fish.

HE NEEDS HER FOR HIS CLAN.
HE WANTS HER FOR HIMSELF.
CAN HE HAVE BOTH?

Toran Lathan never expected to become Laird, and never expected to meet a woman like Aileana Shaw. Her healing ability is just what his people need, but Toran cannot resist her beauty. Yet will loving him destroy her ability to heal?

Aileana Shaw has a healing touch – and a special talent she must keep secret. Stolen from her home by a marauding army, she’s kidnapped again by the Highland Laird she heals. Is she a prize of war, or the prize of his heart?

While Toran battles the invading lowland army, he also battles his desire for Aileana. And Aileana must decide if she can trust her secrets to this fierce warrior who needs her talent, but wants her love.

Targeted Age Group: Adult

Author Bio:
Willa Blair is the best-selling and award-winning author of Scottish romance with a paranormal twist, set in the 16th century Highlands, when the old ways, and old talents, still shaped events.

She always wished she had several psi talents, such as reading her husband’s mind, cleaning house by simply thinking about it, and flying. But alas, no. So she endows her historical romance characters with special talents and lives vicariously through them. She loves reading and writing romance novels set in the past, present and future.

She realized her life-long dream of becoming an author after retiring from her day job to write, travel, and enjoy life. Married to her own military hero golf fanatic, she lives in the Texas Hill Country north of San Antonio where she writes, feeds hummingbirds year-round and has too many hobbies to count.

Tragically widowed at the tender age of thirty five, Olivia Leonard found herself faced with the daunting prospect of running a thoroughbred horse farm alone, while at the same time bringing up her fourteen year old daughter. Before the death of her husband she had been a successful writer, but necessity forced her to turn her back on that career.

Matthew Allen is a veterinarian with a reputation for unreliability; cheated on by a co-worker two years previously he walked out on a top job in Florida and now relies upon short-term locum appointments around the country, often living out of motels.

Targeted Age Group: 25 – 50

Book Price: $0.99

How is Writing In Your Genre Different from Others?
I think every writer is different from others because everyone’s life experiences are different. This gives them their own unique perspective from which to draw their writing.

What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Take advantage of Amazon’s self publishing ‘gift’ to authors and when your books are published, take notice of any criticism they may receive and use it productively. Remember, just because your book is published, its content isn’t set in stone. Make any necessary improvements and re-upload. Hoiw many print-authors have that ability?

Author Bio:
I was born and educated in the UK and moved to the USA with my family in 1993. I have always made a living writing, both as a ghost writer and in my own name, and have previously ghost written four successful Kindle novellas and several non-fiction books, I decided a series of novellas in my own name was way overdue. Hence ‘We Can Laugh Together Too’, book one in a planned Walnut Grove Trilogy.

Book two: ‘The Last Laugh’, is in the works, and book three will be hot on its heels.

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I’ve always been an avid reader and writer; give me a good book over watching television any day!

Until recently, all my writer has been mostly for others, mainly writing content for other people’s web sites, although I have previously published a few non-fiction books on Amazon about various aspects of budget travel. These were all published under a pseudonym.

In addition to writing I’ve always been mad about horses, especially thoroughbreds, and dalmatian dogs, hence when I decided to try my hand at my first novella, both horses and dalmatians are part of the plot..

I was actually inspired to move beyond content writing by the ease with which Amazon allows aspiring authors to self publish. A number of my friends are achieving success with Amazon so I viewed it as a natural progression.

On the evening of Sofia Claremont’s seventeenth birthday, she is sucked into a nightmare from which she cannot wake.
A quiet evening walk along a beach brings her face to face with a dangerous pale creature that craves much more than her blood.

She is kidnapped to an island where the sun is eternally forbidden to shine.
An island uncharted by any map and ruled by the most powerful vampire coven on the planet. She wakes here as a slave, a captive in chains.

Sofia’s life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn when she is the one selected out of hundreds of girls to join the harem of Derek Novak, the dark royal Prince.

Despite his addiction to power and obsessive thirst for her blood, Sofia soon realizes that the safest place on the island is within his quarters, and she must do all within her power to win him over if she is to survive even one more night.

Will she succeed? …or is she destined to the same fate that all other girls have met at the hands of the Novaks?

“I challenge you to read this book and not love it.”
– Get Lost In Fiction

Targeted Age Group: 15+

Book Price: 0.99

Author Bio:
I guess my life as a writer started when I was five; I’d sit under the kitchen table with my box of multi-colored wax crayons (I miss those) and create picture books. Creative writing was always my favorite subject and I used any free time I had to sit down with a notepad.

I’m an avid reader, a big fan of cookie ice cream and I’m often travelling. When working I have to disconnect the internet for fear of being endlessly distracted by websites such as www.icanhas.cheezburger.com.

Samantha Harper finally meets the man of her dreams, but she sleeps with him too soon. Like anyone, she wishes that she could take it back. Unlike everyone, her wish comes true! She goes back in time, and gets several chances to wait longer and longer to have sex with him, until she finally figures out exactly how long she’s supposed to wait to have sex, if she wants him to fall in love with her.

Targeted Age Group:
18-35

What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
To write anything long-form you have to have a lot of discipline. You have to be willing to push through the hard days and the days when you don’t feel inspired and do the work anyway. Before you try to write a novel or a screenplay, be honest with yourself about who you are. Are you the type of person who can stick it out, even when it gets tough and people are giving you hard notes that you don’t wan to hear? Are you the type of person who can take that criticism and use it to make your story better? Or will you give up or get bored and move on to something that inspires you today? If you don’t think you have the discipline, but you really want to write, start with commercials, short films, or tweeting. If you love it enough, you will eventually be able to train yourself to follow through in longer formats.

Author Bio:
Monique Sorgen was born and raised in San Francisco, spending summers and winter holidays in Paris, with her mom’s side of the family. Sorgen is half-French. She wrote her first chapter of a book in 5th Grade, based on the adventures, drama, and goings-on of her classmates at her French-American grade school. She sent her writings to Judy Blume, and in return became the proud recipient of a printed form letter and autographed picture, thanking her for being a fan.

Sorgen moved to Los Angeles, shortly before her 18th birthday, to attend UCLA’s school of Theater, Film, and Television, where she studied directing for theater and film. Her directing pursuits lead her to writing screenplays, that she hoped to direct. Her screenplays lead to jobs writing for television, and later lead to jobs writing movies which have yet to be made. Her desire to share her stories without having to wait for a studio’s “green light” lead her to writing novels. The use of the plural in the word “novels” is slightly exaggerated, since this is her first one. Or maybe it’s premonitory, since she plans to write more.

Her debut novel, “How Long You Should Wait to Have Sex”, is based on Sorgen’s true mind-wonderings about how great it would be to get a do-over when a seemingly perfect guy disappears after sex.

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I was inspired to write this book because I experienced what my character experienced. I met a guy I really liked, and his feelings for me seemed to change after we had sex. I knew we would have been good for each other, but I was no longer in a position to prove it to him. He wasn’t calling me anymore. I wished I could’ve done things differently. And I knew that I couldn’t, but in fiction, someone could. So I played the whole thing out in the book. What if a girl went back in time to the day she had sex and just didn’t. Would things go differently?

Being badly injured in a plane crash and feeling responsible for losing his fianceé keep Jordan Cooper from getting involved with another woman, but his best friend Caleb talks him into going on a blind date. He’s surprised that in a short time his feelings for Raina Abbott runs deep. Jordan wants more than just one night with her, but he has to convince her first.

Leaving an abusive ex and ending an unhealthy relationship with food still aren’t enough to help Raina Abbott overcome her feelings of insecurity, but her best friend Jayce convinces her that going on a blind date is the first step to boosting her self-confidence and feeling good about herself again. Jordan Cooper shows her that she’s beautiful, both inside and out, but can a date and one night of passion assure her that he’s really into her?

Targeted Age Group:
18 years and over

How is Writing In Your Genre Different from Others?
The romance, or romantic relationship between the hero and heroine is at the core of the story, although their relationship is usually consummated. In fact, it is one of the means through which the characters learn about themselves and each other. There is usually a happily ever after (HFN) or even a happy for now (HFN) ending.

What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
I’m a newbie writer, so my advice will be very limited. First, I think it’s important to set small goals and strive to achieve them. So let’s say you’re a blogger, you can aim for writing one blog each week, for instance, but if you actually wrote two or more, that would be even better. It also helps to volunteer to review books of or even beta read for fellow authors. We must remember, though, that all critiques must be constructive and shouldn’t be used as a means to demean other writers. Another thing worth doing is to connect with other authors, especially those who write similar genres to those you write. What’s more, I think newbies should take a few writing classes to hone their writing skills. And most importantly, they should write, write, write.

As a graduate with a degree in Education, she writes blogs which help readers to think critically about and appreciate poetry. In July, 2012, however, she decided to delve into the world of writing romance stories.

When she is not reading or writing, she spends her time cooking, listening to music and visiting the various islands of the Caribbean.

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
My debut novella He’s So Into You was inspired by actual events. Four persons boarded a plane in a Caribbean island, which was bound for another, and within moments of taking off, the plane crashed. All but one person died. I was deeply moved by the events that took place. A few days after the crash, the lone survivor, said he passed out just before the impact. He suffered injuries to his leg. So I asked myself, “If this man was traveling with his fiancée, what would his story be?” And I started to brainstorm ideas, and He’s So Into You was born.

Sammie Brown is involved with Jake, a biker, but it is his arrogant half brother that keeps invading her thoughts. Jake was an animal in bed but there was no fire, not like what she felt when his brother Mitch Baldwin kissed her.

Sammie reluctantly agrees to go to Sturgis with Jake to see if she should continue their relationship, and on the way she finds out that he is very different than he has led her to believe. He gets mad and abandons her, forcing her to accept the protection of his half brother Mitch, or “Cowboy” as the bikers call him.

The fire between Sammie and Mitch gets too hot to be refused and they give in to their passion, not knowing that Jake is watching. Mitch and Sammie realize that there is something special between them. Mitch vows to keep Sammie safe, but will he be able to protect her from his own brother?

Targeted Age Group:
18 and older

How is Writing In Your Genre Different from Others?
I grew up in a Christian home (my dad was a minister), and it certainly would have been easier for me to write a mainstream romance rather than an erotic romance but my story just didn’t go that way. I am currently working on the sequel to Red Skies At Dawn. Sammie, Mitch, & Jake are all back and there are some unexpected twists & turns in the book that are sure to keep the interest of the reader. .

What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
If one publisher doesn’t want to publish try another one and never give up! If the publisher turns you down ask them for feedback and then make some revisions. The most important thing is Never give up. Look how many times Thomas Edison tried to make the light bulb before he got it right.

Author Bio:
Like I said above, I grew up in a Christian home with a minister for a father. I lived a fairly sheltered life till my teens when my attraction for the bad boys got me into trouble. I am divorced now and live near Branson Missouri with my 2 cats (Max and Bobby Joe who is deaf). I have worked as a nurse for over half of my life which doesn’t give me a lot of time for writing every day. I enjoy writing all sorts of things and just recently have submitted a children’s book for publishing. I am keeping my fingers crossed that it is accepted.

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
Several years ago I was married to a biker. Some of the experiences I had during that time led me to write the story. I had intended for the book to be a sweet love story but my characters had a mind of their own and the story actually has some pretty raw scenes. I have a vivid imagination, and this story is fiction but there is a lot of truth in it.